Once you’ve grokked the Re-Frame philosophy for building truly reactive applications on React in ClojureScript, you will want to apply it everywhere. One obvious and ubiquitous application of effects is asynchronous HTTP requests, and of course there is an officially sanctioned library for handling these. One problem: it relies on an AJAX library that only works with the browser XHR implementation. So what can we do in React Native-based Clojurescript apps?

I try to hang out in the #cljsrn channel on Clojurians Slack to answer questions that I can as they come up, and one in particular that I also puzzled over has recurred: Why is there so much keyboard lag on my TextInput elements? Is this inherent in React Native or ClojureScript?

A major feature of Outboard, my iOS app written with ClojureScript on React Native, is the ability to add places to your lists from a share extension inside Apple’s Maps, Google Maps, Yelp, or other apps that supply URLs. React Native ships with AsyncStorage, a LocalStorage analog for iOS and Android apps, but on iOS, that data is sandboxed to the app alone. To share between an app and an extension, you need to use App Groups, and roll your own persistence layer to interact with it. In this article, I’ll explain how to do that. You should first have an App Group set up on the developer portal and have an entitlement to it added both your app and its extension; you can follow this guide to get to that point.

Thanks to everyone who came out to my talk at Clojure PDX last night. Code for the demo project is on Github and the slides are available here.